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The International Program Office (IPO) for the World Data System (WDS) is based at the University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Innovation Institute at ORNL. The IPO is supported by a cooperative agreement (DE-SC0021915, PI: Suzie Allard) with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The IPO provides the World Data System, a member organization for scientific data repositories worldwide and an affiliated body of the International Science Council, with programmatic and communication support. The IPO provides executive functions to the WDS Scientific Committee that enhance the WDS member data repositories' capabilities, impact, and sustainability. This is accomplished through enabling trusted communities, strengthening the scientific enterprise, and advocating for accessible data and transparent and reproducible science. The IPO's work supports widespread storing of quality science data in secure and accessible repositories providing trusted data to conduct AI-enabled science. The IPO interacts with and supports our DOE colleagues through: building bridges with international entities, researchers, and engineers to solve data problems, offering international examples of policies, processes, and standards that aid organizations in setting their global standards, and Serving as a voice in international meetings to share the U.S. perspective. The IPO highlights how WDS is engaged with federated search, open science, and repository certification, all relying on quality governance. Examples include our engagement with international repository-related policies through a policy paper and webinar series, workshops on data repository descriptive metadata and AI&ML best practices in Polar Science, and the outcomes from a recent survey on repository certification options. WDS also provided feedback on the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure and author guidelines for Publishing Open Research Using Physical Samples.